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For the most part, I'm happy about our finished project as it went so much better than I expected it to. To start with I had my doubts about the winning show idea as it was a children's game show and  we were warned not to work with children or animals as they come with a lot of legal responsibilities (like the fact that we can't upload our show on YouTube, or any online platform, yet for example). However, I think that all of us did their best and deserved a clap on the back. This unit definitely helped to bring us all together as we never actually worked on anything as a  big team, so far we only had little teams that wouldn't change a lot over a year and a half. 
As for my own work on it



I feel like I could have done a better job at keeping sharper focus, but I'm sure that with more practice I could have done it better. During game two I did a crucial mistake (that was later on edited out) of reframing on air. My job was to have CUs on the leaver and the battery and I was so focused on trying to get both in time that I didn't notice my tally light was on until it was too late. For me, that wasn't the worst part as I had a minor panic attack about it and lost my own focus on what I was doing. Thankfully it didn't last too long and I managed to recover before the game finished. Through all of the rehearsals, we had our presenter to count how much of the battery was restored and that was where I had my tilt up the battery.
A few things that I am really happy about how it turned out was the game one where I tilted down to show the game from up close and then had the CU of the contestant twisting the pipes and the final tilt to show the 'fuel' running through the pipes. 
Another shot that was unplanned but I'm very happy about how it turned out was the group shot in the last game. On my camera card I had directions to film the group shot of the contestants that weren't playing the game and we never anticipated that they would be standing so close to the game and the player. At first I was a bit lost because I wasn't sure if our director, Lauren, will like the shot of the whole group, but in this case I went with my gut and the framing was so much better in the group shot rather than just the non playing contestants and now it's one of my favourite shots that I managed to capture on the whole show.
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